Improvement in faucets



of the discharge-passage.

OHN BROUGHTON,

'0 h NEW Y'ORKQN- Y.-

Lam Patent No. 95,077, dated September 21,1869.

IMPROVEMENT m saucers.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it ma/y concern Be it known that I, J OHN BROUGHTON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Faucets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification, and in which Figures 1 and 2,1'epresent sectional views, at right angles toteach other, of a faucet, constructed in accordance with my improvement.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. r h

his, my improvement, relates to faucets of a compression character or action, and in which the valveis opened by a revolving, ecccntrically-arranged pin or bar; and

The invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts, in the combination of details of which the faucet is composed, including certain arrangement-sot packings thereto, whereby the faucet, as a whole, is greatly improved and rendered more elficient, durable, and easy in its action.

Referring to theaccompanyi'ug drawing- A is a horizontal shank or supply-pipe, and B, a

pendent bodyor nozzle thereto, the latter being connected with the shank in such manner as that a flexiblewasher, G, laid upon the upper end of said body,

and lield down by a shoulcer, a, in the shank, serves,

to both pack the connec ing-joint. of the body and shank, and to form a flexible seatrfor the valve D to rest upon.

Thus, the flexible washer O performs 'a double function, namely, that of a stationary valve-seat and a packing t9 the joint 11, whichlatter, by thearrangement shown, is not exposed to the pressure of the fluid in the supply-pipe, hence not so liable to leak as if so exposed.

The valve 1) is arranged to have a vertical play or action, andis opened by a cam action, but closes by its own gravity and the. pressure of fluid above it,

without, of necessity, the aid of a spring. Saii valve is formed of onepiece, itshead c overlapping the discharge-opening in the valve-seat, and its body being made up of thin radial guiding-wings d, with a disk, 6, at its lower end, which disk may be the full diameter Such valve, which is of a solid character, having no joint at its head,'aud mov-- ing independently of tha flexible seat 0, that is free" trom all tendency to tear or lift, being held .down by the pressure of the fluid and shoulder (it, presents,

all adjustments of itrcircumferentially, the same and like lifting-surtace to the action of the opening-cam,- by reason of its bottom disk e, which-latter part also serves to break the force of the discharging current, and todistribute in an equal manner from off its top the efiiuent fluid to the nozzle. 1

. Said disk e furthermore serves, by the action of the discharging current on it, to .aid in closing the'valve when the cam, which operates the latter, is turned to ter as the discharge-passage above it, in no way chokes a globular portion of the body B, and is provided with flanges or shoiilders it, that serve to retain in position flexible packing-rings i, which fit in recesses of an annular Wedge-shape character, whereby the pressure of the fluid operates to tighten said paokings, and escape in a lateral direction is prevented, whilethe flanges h act as shields to prevent all leakage in an-eudwis'e direction, that is, in direction of the lengthof the valveshaft E, which is of a cylindrical character, consequently less liable tostick'tthan ifof a taper form, and doesnot require to be ground, yet is water-tight, and

fices to turn it.

u A faucet thus constructed in all its parts'einbraces or forms a -practical combination of details, which make the device perfect in everyrespect.

' Whatis here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, isi v The valve D, formed with a lower .disk, 0, in combody of the faucet, and the shaft E, with its eccentric as shown and described.

7 JOHN BROUGHTON.

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LoUIs H. Prcuonm'r,

HENRY PALMER.

shut it. ,But this disk 0, although of as large diameor lessens the discharge, as the central portion of the so free to move-that a short handle or lever, 7c, sufbination with the enlarged chamber f, in orf'to' the lifting-bar g, flanges h,and packing-rings i, essentially 

